Steve,Thank you! I have seen the doc as well. My question is how this is applicable to NFS based VMsThere is not lun here. The vmware datastore is on NFS volume. VMWARE to Netapp NFS is 4k, right?
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7:09:23 PM CST, Klise, Steve Steve.Klise@wwt.com wrote:
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Create LUNs with SnapDrive for Windows or SnapCenter whenever possible. If you want to create LUNs with DiskManager or other tools, make sure that allocation unit size is set to 64K for partitions during formatting the LUNs.
https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4590.pdf
From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net on behalf of Iluhes iluhes@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 4:24 PM To: "toasters@teaparty.net" toasters@teaparty.net, "toasters-request@teaparty.net" toasters-request@teaparty.net Subject: Netapp-_NFS_datastore_VMware__SQL VM__NTFS
What is the best practice for formating a NTFS partion to be used for MS SQL data drive on the VMWARE VM
that is residing on NFS (not VMFS or RDM) datastore.
Is it still 4K? MS recommendations are for larger size (64K)
NFS datastore!